tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2382184804747180588.post2398612505633285528..comments2024-03-27T09:04:12.454-07:00Comments on Baring the Aegis: PBP: Niobe's lessons, and notes on mythologyElani Temperancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05611003885755154591noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2382184804747180588.post-36313901744400891192015-10-07T03:29:42.248-07:002015-10-07T03:29:42.248-07:00A very beautiful page about Niobe and the Niobides...A very beautiful page about Niobe and the Niobides! :-)<br />I will also mention, however, how Pausanius wrote very lovely about statue of Niobe's daughter Meliboia (Khloris) near the statue of Leto in one ancient shrine he saw, but he expressed also his doubt that any of the Niobe's children survived.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2382184804747180588.post-91886737369497374022014-05-24T08:36:20.558-07:002014-05-24T08:36:20.558-07:00The bit about the youngest daughter killed in her ...The bit about the youngest daughter killed in her mother's arms is from Ovid:<br />"Now six had been dealt death, suffering their various wounds: the last remained. The mother, with all her robes and with her body, protected her, and cried out ‘Leave me just one, the youngest! I only ask for one, the youngest of all!’ While she prayed, she, for whom she prayed, was dead."<br />Metamorphoses, Book VI<br />http://poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Latin/Metamorph6.htm#_Toc64106369Maya Mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10877457709995369246noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2382184804747180588.post-91635049370064163522013-07-12T17:28:46.612-07:002013-07-12T17:28:46.612-07:00"Our gods are not cuddly . . . "
Indeed..."Our gods are not cuddly . . . "<br /><br />Indeed! I was terrified when I was invited by the gods to worship them. I chose to do so, and I have never regretted it.<br /><br />But they're still deserving of awe, as in both "awesome" and "awful" in their original meanings.TPWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03264842579175313715noreply@blogger.com